“Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled.

“Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!”

His suggestion that he single-handedly prevented a war with North Korea is impossible to test.

Earlier in Trump’s presidency, many experts said his “maximum pressure” approach to the US adversary actually made armed conflict significantly more likely.

At one point, he explicitly threatened to unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen” in response to North Korean aggression.

His recent summit with Kim Jong Un, the first official meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president, is perhaps the best sign of reduced tensions, though experts have questioned whether the meeting moved North Korea any closer to giving up its nuclear weapons.

At a press briefing on Monday, the White House announced that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo planned to visit North Korea on Thursday to meet with Kim and “continue the ongoing and important work of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.”